Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 22
The shoemaker said also they had been made for the child of a count, but had not fitted.
Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: say, make, not fit · To what, where: shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shoemaker | det |
| 2 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 count | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 count | det |
| 14 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 child | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fitted | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 fitted | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fitted | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fitted | advmod |
| 19 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the shoemaker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | shoes = shoe | for the child of a count | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | not fit | past · perfect | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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